ORLANDO — Embraer served champagne to celebrate the unveiling of a new large business jet, the Legacy 650, at a media briefing this afternoon at the National Business Aviation Association convention. It’s the sixth business jet the company has launched in the past four years. The $29.5 million plane will carry 13 passengers and have a range of 3,900 nautical miles.
The plane is on track to be certified in the second half of 2010. The company does not yet have a launch customer for the aircraft.
Embraer started development of the jet in 2008, before the economic crisis hit.
The Brazil-based company went forward with the aircraft, seeing it as an opportunity in the face of the crisis, company officials said.
“In 2005, we created a vision to become a major player by 2015 in (the business jet market),” said Embraer vice president of executive jets Luis Carlos Affonso. “This move is pretty much consistent with this.”
– Molly McMillin
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Cessna lays down like a big FAT dog and everyone walks right on by.
We had meetings out there and had ALL the employees stirred up about competition and how we needed to ALL work harder and faster!
They preached how will will loose our jobs if we do not stay ahead…well well…now who is slacking and dropping the ball Cessna?
MANAGEMENT AND TEXTRON THATS WHO!
You fools ran a good company in the ground,I would not be proud of that!
Six new jets in four years is really cracking. These folks are serious. Is Cessna? They do not appear to be. At the rate they are moving they must not have to do many things twice. Hmmm.